There was a bully in my apartment complex.

Text of story: https://medium.com/@ysazhar/flash-nonfiction-bully-5187602265a3

"A handyman lives near us — about a 5 minute drive or maybe 4 minutes. To tell you the truth, he’s my wife’s relative. He’s old. He can fix anything. But since he’s old, I don’t like to bug him. Also, he knows I’m useless. But bugging an old man to come fix your leaking sink? It’s not right..."

Read by AI voice en-AU-Neural2-D.

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"I haven’t studied under my teacher for about 6 years probably..."

Read by AI voice en-US-Standard-J.

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"My wife and I sat in our California living room as we did each night. She watched a Turkish drama on her laptop and I read 'The Elephant Vanishes' by Haruki Murakami. She took off her headphones and said, 'Something has been bothering me about Hillian since she moved.'"

Read by AI voice en-US-Standard-J.

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"My mother used to yell at me and my brothers when we complained her food was too hot. Every salan burned our mouths..."

Read by AI voice en-US-Studio-Q.

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"Before my sister birthed my nephew, her husband moved to America. I never changed his diaper, but I brought her food and removed the trash from her room. I became my sister’s favorite brother and her son became my favorite nephew. We were the youngest of 14 siblings. All the others married and moved out of my father’s home in New Delhi..."

Read by AI voice en-IN-Wavenet-F.

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"The sun grinds a path through the sky..."

“The gas car slips under my nails…”

Read by AI voice en-US-Wavenet-F.

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